Privatize this? : assessing the opportunities and costs of privatization / / Richard A. McGowan.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 206 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A brief history of the privatization versus nationalization debate
  • An arena model for the privatization question
  • International examples
  • Privatizing Sin : the 21st-century cigarette industry
  • Privatize or nationalize? : Argentina's privatization of its oil industry
  • The never-ending cycle of privatization : Venezuela's oil industry
  • A public good or inefficiency : port facilities in the United States and Canada
  • State-operated industries that were once private enterprises
  • State-controlled liquor stores I: Pennsylvania
  • State-controlled liquor stores II: New Hampshire
  • Public transportation regional authorities : should the Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City systems be privatized?
  • Proposed and newly privatized industries
  • The evolution and scope of the privatized prison industry
  • Privatizing a lottery : the case of Illinois
  • Conclusion
  • General motors and the government bailout : the hybrid privatization.